Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-12 Thread David Christensen
On 06/12/2015 12:45 AM, Peter Viskup wrote: Always consider using ddrescue [1] instead of dd - especially once you are not sure about the state of the drive. Tool ddrescue is taking 'dd' image of the drive, but will skip all the areas where the read will return an error. Standard 'dd' will try to

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-12 Thread Peter Viskup
Always consider using ddrescue [1] instead of dd - especially once you are not sure about the state of the drive. Tool ddrescue is taking 'dd' image of the drive, but will skip all the areas where the read will return an error. Standard 'dd' will try to continuously re-read that area which could ca

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 11 June 2015 23:46:02 Alejandro Exojo wrote: > This is the whole smartctl output: > > http://paste.debian.net/220687/ > > Can I understand the following line as that the disk might be fine? > > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Details show that no bad sectors

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread David Christensen
On 06/11/2015 12:32 AM, Alejandro Exojo wrote: Yesterday I found out that my extra disk shut down. I don't know what steps to follow from now on. I'm searching online about the error as I found in the logs, and I don't know what steps to follow. ... I don't know where to proceed from here. The

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Thursday 11 June 2015, Ric Moore escribió: > On 06/11/2015 03:32 AM, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > Or should I create an image as a > > > file stored somewhere else? > > Just for grins, unplug the connector(s) from the drive AND at the > motherboard, both. Plug it all back in again. That has work

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/11/2015 03:32 AM, Alejandro Exojo wrote: Or should I create an image as a file stored somewhere else? Just for grins, unplug the connector(s) from the drive AND at the motherboard, both. Plug it all back in again. That has worked for me more than once, and I replaced those cables after

Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread Alejandro Exojo
Hello. Yesterday I found out that my extra disk shut down. I don't know what steps to follow from now on. I'm searching online about the error as I found in the logs, and I don't know what steps to follow. This is the log (I just trimmed which I think it was irrelevant): http://paste.debian.ne